Walt Whitman.............
said that - "Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading isn't a half-sleep; but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself."
Points to Ponder
"Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last you until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." - Anthony Trollope
A Quote from Carl Sagan
When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly developed brains. But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in our brains. So we learned to stockpile enormous quantities of information outside our bodies. We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called a LIBRARY.
BOVINA DAY!!!
call the BPL for more info..........
Bovina Day Events
Friday July 17th, 2009
7 and 9pm THE BRUSHLAND MELODRAMA (at the community hall)
Saturday July 18th, 2009
9:00 am 3 pm Annual Historical
8:00am 10am Fire Department Breakfast Items-to-go
9:00am 2pm Fire Department Open House
10:00am Fire Department Kids Games (at the Fire Hall)
11:00am 1:00pm Historical Society Lunch (at Brays by the Playground)
12:00pm-2:00pm Vintage Baseball Game (Location TBA)
Bovina Dairymen vs. Fleischmanns
4:00pm Fire Department 60th Anniversary Parade
6:00pm Town Picnic(bring a dish to pass at the Ball Field)
7:00pm History of the
SUMMER HOURS
don't forget!!
MEMORIAL DAY -LABOR DAY
Tuesday 3:30-8:00 p.m.
Wednesday 1 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Thursday 10:30a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Dorothy Russell - 1987
Long-time librarian (photo by Hugh Lee)

Mrs Ernest (Dorothy) Russell who was the Bovina Public Library's Director for 40 years. This photo by trustee emeritus Hugh Lee taken in 1987 near the end of her many years of dedicated service to the community.


